A pair of teachers will be sharing their passion for education with volunteers teaching children in Uganda.

Sophie Bartlett, 23, and Claire Southerton, 28, who teach at Rivermead Primary School in Woodley will be spending their summer holiday in Bwindi, working with a teacher training charity.

The duo will work closely with a group of teachers to help raise the quality of education.

Miss Bartlett said: "The teachers [we'll be working with] are just civilians that volunteer or former pupils."

But to help the pair achieve their goal they must raise around £2,500 towards the resources they need to train the teachers, the cost of travel and insurance.

Miss Bartlett and Miss Southerton, who work at the Loddon Bridge Road school, signed up for the trip after spotting an advert on Facebook and wanted to share their love of education with others.

They will be working for Limited Resource Teacher Training (LRTT), which provides teacher training to educators in deprived parts of the world in a bid to tackle the huge numbers of children who cannot read or write.

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According to LRTT there are 190 million children in schools worldwide who cannot read or write due to the low-quality education.

Miss Bartlett added: "I think what I’m going to find hard is going back to a westernised kind of hostel [when] these teachers and kids will have a two hour walk home and some of the kids have work to do after class.

"Seeing that gap will be hard."

Miss Bartlett and Miss Southerton will be travelling to Bwindi on July 31 and will be working with 18 other teachers for four weeks.

A portion of the money will also go to Inspiring Futures, a partner charity of LRTT.